Communicating Emergency Preparedness ─ Practical Strategies for the Public and Private Sectors

This fully revised edition of Communicating Emergency Preparedness: Strategies for Creating a Disaster Resilient Public includes timely case studies, events, and references to articles and opinions about the direction of emergency preparedness communication. The authors draw upon their professional endeavors to inject a new sense of practicality to the text. New images displaying emergency preparedness campaigns are used to further illustrate the materials being presented. For instructors and practitioners alike, this book continues to provide the how-to instruction that is often required, and will only improve upon the success of the first edition in doing so.

Damon P. Coppola is author of several emergency management academic and professional texts, including Introduction to International Disaster Management, Introduction to Homeland Security, and Introduction to Emergency Management. He is also co-author of several FEMA Emergency Management Institute Higher Education Courses, including Crisis and Risk Communications and Hazards Risk Management. As Partner with the Washington, DC-based emergency management consulting firm Bullock & Haddow, LLC, Mr. Coppola has planned, designed, and conducted large-scale disaster preparedness campaigns for governments at the local, national, and international levels, for private corporations, and for organizations in the nonprofit sector.

Erin K. Maloney is a director of research in the FDA-funded Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) at the University of Pennsylvania, and an adjunct instructor in the Department of Communication Studies at West Chester University in Pennsylvania and the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University. Through her work in the TCORS, her postdoctoral research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, and her graduate work, she consulted on and participated in the design, implementation, and evaluation of a variety of health and environmental interventions at both the community and organizational levels. Her work has applied communication principles across a wide variety of disciplines, and has been published in prestigious peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Applied Social Psychology, Human Communication Research, Health Communication, Palliative and Supportive Care, and Radiology.